LinkedIn News.

From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemple and this is Hello Monday.

It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us and you can probably hear it.

I've got some seasonal allergies going on this week.

Bear with the voice.

So I have this friend, she's in her early 60s. I met her a long time ago now through my first big journalism job,

and she's always been a mentor to me. She's like one of those

kind of people who's just an engine of great ideas and then she's really generous with

them. You probably know the type. Anyhow, last fall we were catching up and she

told me that she'd gotten to feel pretty lousy about her job. She had one, working in media,

and it was a fine gig on paper. It paid enough, the work was okay. But my friend

had just reached this new moment in her life. Her youngest child had gone to college and her partner had passed

away a few years earlier. She found herself unencumbered with new found time and she didn't want just a job.

She didn't want a coast.

She wanted to create things, things that mattered, to make connections,

to make more money.

She was professionally ambitious, but the message she got

from her boss was just chill out. What do you want to work so hard for now at this stage?

And that, well that's a form of ageism, an

is that is at the heart of today's episode. Ageism is a tricky one. The older we get, the more we encounter moments where we begin to wonder.

How does this perception of our age impact us at work?

Often it's not something we can know for sure, more of a suspicion that shadows us.

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